Jens Kuerschner
Head Of Software Engineering at Tenhil GmbH & Co. KG
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Kuerschner is a tech founder and product-focused engineering leader based in Munich with 15+ years of experience building and scaling digital products and teams. He founded the popular open-source Add to Calendar project—now with 1.4k GitHub stars, over 2M npm installs and a high-traffic CDN footprint—which he successfully turned into a paid SaaS for event professionals. Jens combines hands-on full-stack development and systems architecture with senior product and program leadership, having led product units and transformed engineering practices at enterprises like Springer Nature and Jungheinrich. He has repeatedly set up cloud-native infrastructures, CI/CD and headless commerce platforms while coaching teams in agile product delivery. Known for moving between startup hustle and corporate transformation, he brings a pragmatic blend of data-informed product strategy and technical execution. Proud dad and serial entrepreneur, he often bridges academic rigor in business informatics with practical market-driven pivots.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Corporate Entrepreneurship Innovation Management Leadership, Corporate Entrepreneurship Innovation Management Leadership at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementM.Sc. Business Administration and Management Marketing Consumer Behavior UX, M.Sc. Business Administration and Management Marketing Consumer Behavior UX at University of Bayreuth
German, English
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Github Skills (10)
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e-mail6
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google-rich-snippets6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
add2cal/add-to-calendar-button
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Reliably create beautiful Add to Calendar Buttons, where people can add events to their calendars. Without the hustle and unsupported cases.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:150 releases, 10 reviews, 587 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jens contributed to the development of the "Add to Calendar Button" project by implementing the user interface elements, adding new features, and fixing existing bugs. Their work included the creation of new features and improvements. Additionally, the user addressed various style-related issues and overall improvements to the user interface.
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add2cal/add-to-calendar-button-react
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Convenient React wrapper for the add to calendar button snippet, which lets you reliably create beautiful buttons, where people can add events to their calendars.
Contributions:56 releases, 73 commits, 136 PRs in 5 months
widgetadd-to-calendar-buttongooglejstreeevent-calendar
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